From: =?iso-8859-1?B?yPDo7eAgxfTo7O7i4A==?= <editor@bluestar.ru>
To: "Melanie Binkley, CBA  " <applause2x@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Balloons in Russia
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:49:46 +0400

Hi Melanie!

Thank you for the warm words. I was glad to recieve your message. I'll be
happy to answer your questions. Balloon business in Russia just started
about 8 years ago. Now there are 55 balloon companies from 39 cities from
Russia and another former USSR cantries (Ukrain, Khasahstan, Latvia - pardon
me, I don't sure if I spell it right in English) in our members catalogue. I
think there are not all Russian balloon companies (because Internet in
Russia, except Moscow and S-Peterburg, is not so popular yet), but no doubt
the mains and the biggest. And I'm afraid only balloon convention we have in
Russia is our online Balloon Club RU.
Site you saw http://www.balloon.ru/ is one of the internet projects belong
Moscow balloon company "Blue Star". It has been at Russian marcet for 6
years. Thouse photos are the winners of our photocompetition: the car mady
by "Blue Star" to the Moscow City Day, the dragon by "Europa uno
Trade"(Moskow) to the last New Year. I recomend you to see another photo
which recieved our special prize, this coat made by company
"Amek"(S-Petersburg) : http://www.balloon.ru/members/konkurs/ekspo_2.htm
Imho, it's really cool.
I compleatly agree with you about difficulty navigation in our site for
english speackers(and readers). But the first task of site Balloon RU was to
unite Russian Balloonists. We take some information from fooledya and
balloonhq and another sites, from "Balloon Images" and "Balloon Magic" (we
ever do links!) because the most of Russian balloonists have the same
problem with navigation and translating, but they really need this
information. Russian Balloon business today just develop and gradually grow
up. I mean balloon art before.
Now we think about english version of this site for introduce world
balloonists with Russia. Haw do like this idea?

About us. "Blue Star" do all: balloon decorating, sculptures, balloon
imprinting, drops and releases, deliveries... Our homepage is there
http://www.bluestar.ru/
Our delivery department grown up to another our internet project. It is
online shop: http://www.giftshop.ru/
(Attention! This one has an English version!) Now we work about national
delivery network based on companies - members of Balloon Club RU.
All general business questions you can sent to our general director, Mihail
Vishnyakov: boss@bluestar.ru

Best regards, Irina


----- Original Message -----
To: <editor@bluestar.ru>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 8:50 PM
Subject: Balloons in Russiassia


> Hi Irina!
>
> Cool Site.  I tried to navigate around to look at some photos but since I
> can't read russian or ?????? when the system translates I had some
> difficulty knowing where to click to be expected though.  The car looked
> spectacular as well as the dragon.....I would love to see more and to know
> what balloon life is like in Russia.   Do you have conventions?  Do you do
a
> lot of large event work?  Weddings?  Deliveries?  Is it popular there or
is
> it just getting started?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Melanie
>
>
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